Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:46:56 EST From: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: jeffa@sybase.com Subject: Re: Trying to install FreeBSD V2.0 Message-ID: <9502271646.AA27728@cottonwood.sybgate.sybase.com>
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Hi All, Just thought I would give you a status update. For all PC hackers I'm sure this won't surprise you... but I finally figured out why I couldn't install FreeBSD V2.0R on my 486DX2/66. It turns out when I was originally installing the system I selected "OPTIMAL" for the BIOS settings (AMI) assuming that this would be a relatively safe thing to do. Wrong. Apparently this sets up some stuff (I'm not exactly sure of what... perhaps the cacheing status of 640KB-1MB). In any case, I finally went and reset the BIOS to pokey mode (turns the clock to 8MHz, no cacheing of any type). I then upped the clock to 33Mhz, enabled the caches. That's it... left everything else the "default" settings for "pokey" mode. Bingo... everything works fine. V2.0R installed like a dream. So, the moral of the story is... things can appear to be working fine for MS-DOS/Windows (yea big surprise here) but not be entirely correct. In my case, these BIOS issues resulted in a kernel panic during installation (duplicate alloc). Really strange. - Jeff
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